Alicia Alonso, the Bolshoi at Her Feet

Moscow, Aug 2 .- Director of the Cuban National Ballet, prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso, described her return to Moscow, where she will be honored, as "returning to the heart of a flower". In remarks to journalists, together with eight new figures of the company that she manages and Bolshoi dancers Svetlana Zajarova and Andrei Uravov, she highlighted the influence of the Russian school on the world and in particular on Cuban ballet.

Today, the Bolshoi is scheduled to pay tribute to her 90th birthday, that was in December 2010, and in recognition of a career that has left an everlasting impression on the history of dance.

Cuban dancers Sadaise Arencibia, Anette Delgado, Yanela Piñera, Viengsay Valdes, Dani Hernandez, Alejandro Virelles, Osiel Gounod and Arian Molina will offer a concert-program with several classical pas de deux and the Grand Pas de Quatre, Alonso´s version on the original by Jules Perrot.

The closure will introduce a different note, the Creole Festival choreographed by Alonso, from the second movement of Night Symphony of the tropics, by the nineteenth-century US composer L. M. Gottsckalk. (Prensa Latina)